Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-264) and index

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The Outer Banks 1526-1814 -- Shipwrecks become news 1815-1838 -- The steam packet Pulaski 1838 -- The toll mounts 1838-1860 -- Ironclads and blockade runners 1861-1865 -- Catching up on lost trade 1866-1877 -- The Huron 1877 -- The Metropolis 1878-1893 -- The long day of Dunbar Davis 1893 -- Shipwrecks as a business 1893-1899 -- San Ciriaco 1899 -- From sail to steam 1899-1918 -- Unguarded shores 1918 -- Peacetime enemy 1919-1941 -- The U-boats return 1942-1945 -- The romance is gone 1946 -- Vessels totally lost on the North Carolina Coast

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This is a factual account, written in the pace of fiction, of hundreds of dramatic losses, heroic rescues and violent adventures at the stormy meeting place of northern and southern winds and waters--the Graveyard of the Atlantic off the Outer Banks of North Carolina

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